用大模型提升金融欺诈检测可解释性,减少人工分析负担。
Understanding Structured Financial Data with LLMs: A Case Study on Fraud Detection
- 将关键特征转为自然语言,通过检索增强实现上下文学习
- 在4个公开数据集上F1/MCC显著优于直接提示法
- 适合需要解释性的金融风控场景,辅助分析师决策
金融交易欺诈检测通常依赖表格模型,需大量特征工程且解释性差。大语言模型(LLMs)虽能生成人类可读解释,但直接应用于表格数据时因多特征推理困难、类别极度不平衡及缺乏上下文信息而表现不佳。为此,我们提出FinFRE-RAG,一种两阶段方法:首先进行重要性引导的特征缩减,将数值/类别属性序列化为自然语言;然后在标签感知、实例级样本中进行检索增强的上下文学习。在四个公开欺诈数据集和三类开源大模型上,FinFRE-RAG显著提升F1/MCC指标,部分场景下媲美强表格基线。尽管仍落后于专用分类器,但性能差距缩小并提供可解释理由,凸显其作为欺诈分析辅助工具的价值。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Detecting fraud in financial transactions typically relies on tabular models that demand heavy feature engineering to handle high-dimensional data and offer limited interpretability, making it difficult for humans to understand predictions. Large Language Models (LLMs), in contrast, can produce human-readable explanations and facilitate feature analysis, potentially reducing the manual workload of fraud analysts and informing system refinements. However, they perform poorly when applied directly to tabular fraud detection due to the difficulty of reasoning over many features, the extreme class imbalance, and the absence of contextual information. To bridge this gap, we introduce FinFRE-RAG, a two-stage approach that applies importance-guided feature reduction to serialize a compact subset of numeric/categorical attributes into natural language and performs retrieval-augmented in-context learning over label-aware, instance-level exemplars. Across four public fraud datasets and three families of open-weight LLMs, FinFRE-RAG substantially improves F1/MCC over direct prompting and is competitive with strong tabular baselines in several settings. Although these LLMs still lag behind specialized classifiers, they narrow the performance gap and provide interpretable rationales, highlighting their value as assistive tools in fraud analysis.
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